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justmeMN: "Traditionally, like most websites, DPReview has generated the majority of its income via conventional 'banner' advertising." - S.E.

So, moneybags Amazon is too cheap to be financially supportive of their own website? For them, financially sponsoring this site would be a minor marketing expense.

I for one am happy with the current state of hands-off-ed-ness of Amazon. They can very aggressive with market positioning if they want, and we don't want that. I wouldn't mind if there was a well marked "Amazon marketplace" available, but it would have ben be separate from editorial and plain as day.

Androole: "... indicating that mirrorless is continuing its rise while simultaneously cannibalizing market share from its DSLR cousins."

To the surprise of no one at all.

Mirrorless is climbing from a smaller number, so it should be posting a higher growth rate. Canon use their own sensors for DSLR's, so they weren't as affected last year by the earthquake (so the drop in overall DSLR wasn't that big if you lump Canon/Nikon together), but Sony/Panasonic/Fuji are all on Sony-based sensors, so basically any number they post this year has to be bigger than last year.

stuntmonkey: I've briefly used the M10 and the M240's, the m10 is what Leica shooters wanted all along. It's not a rational decision, but the M-system does do some things better than what other systems can do. Take a Summilux 24mm and mount it on an A7rII; the corners aren't going to come out as good as they do on the native body. Basically for full frame primes, Leica is unique for optical rendition at the size of lens that they produce.

Having seen samples, it's not just the sensor cover thickness; converted A7rII's still don't have as good corner rendition as the Leica bodies; apparently the unique oblong micro-lenses on the m240 and m10 really do make a difference.

I've briefly used the M10 and the M240's, the m10 is what Leica shooters wanted all along. It's not a rational decision, but the M-system does do some things better than what other systems can do. Take a Summilux 24mm and mount it on an A7rII; the corners aren't going to come out as good as they do on the native body. Basically for full frame primes, Leica is unique for optical rendition at the size of lens that they produce.

fPrime: Oh, Leica... if you'd only made the M10 with a full frame CCD sensor like the M9 then maybe more people would care. Now the output looks, smells, tastes like any old CMOS sensor from Sony. Undifferentiated. Boring.

Still with the CCD thing. Yes, the colours were different back then, but was because all manufacturer's used strongly colour separation in their colour filter arrays... it's not something that is inherent to the CCD itself, not mostly. "High ISO" and CMOS took off together, and people equated them to one another, but what was happening was that the sensor makers started to trade off the strength of the colour separation to tune for ISO performance. you really saw that happening when Nikon switched from D3 to D3s, CMOS to CMOS but the D3s had an ISO bump but with the trade off of some colour separation.

As mentioned before , I find it odd that DPR posts about camera rumors now, considering how often they have pre-production units for launch day material. If they are sitting on a press-embargo'd unit while they are commenting on another site's rumors, that's cutting it a bit close, non-disclosure wise. And if they aren't, it seems weird that they wouldn't have a pre-production unit at this point in their history.

photomedium: I rented this and it's an impressive stills camera. However, they put the fn button in the most annoying place inside the grip and it protrudes out a heck of a lot more than in the 7200. This is a hefty camera, and that fn button kills what would otherwise have been amazing ergonomics like the d5500. WHY???

I just got mine today. Fn1's position is genius if you like using AF-ON. I find it ergonomically better with the double front-button than traditional back-button focusing.

Rick Knepper: So, according to the title of the article, the theme is "undercooked". I wanted to find out what "undercooked" means but the article never uses the term again. I searched both the article and review and nada.

CMOS back then didn't have as much light-fill as CCD; there were advantages with using it on APS-C, but CCD had better efficiency with smaller photodiodes.

I used to work in market research.. man these press releases take me back... a lot of numbers with no context (growth? what kind of growth, dollar growth/unit growth?... inflation driven or product driven?)... The press release isn't meant to be helpful, it's basically an advertisement for companies to buy the full industry report hoping that there is something substantive in it.

Stabilization means making compromises in the optical formula. Compare the Tamron 24-70VC against the Canon 24-70L or the Tamron 17-50VC vs its previous versions... not direct comparisons, but basically we haven't yet seen a stabilized f/2.8 normal zoom that is every bit as good as best non-stabilized lenses. On a lighter mirrorless camera it would help, but on the DSLR's the heft of the pro bodies already makes for stable shooting platforms, and stabilization is less of a priority than outright optical quality.

rhys1974: What about the Giotto YTL series?? The compact way this folds up makes it look like a good travel tripod. I have a a beautiful Manfrotto tripod, but it suffers the same fate as you mention here - too big and bulky to carry around on most days, so it sits at home gathering dust. Have been thinking about some more compact/lightweight options for a while now, but would like to see direct comparison of the Giotto with the above list..

I've had a chance to use the BeFree next to the Giottos VGRN pods.. Surprisingly, the VGRN pods are more resistant to vibration even though the leg sections are lighter and slimmer. I think it is because the Giottos leg segments are perfectly round, whereas the BeFree isn't.